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Is this for your own content or stuff from wherever?
Packs tend to cause problems, either now or later. Either they walk on each other, or they get tied up with each other and upgrading parts becomes painful. Better to stick to individual codecs or the small sets from single vendors. (MS, Nero, etc.) Keep track of what you use, and where to find updates.
The only few most people need now are MS's stuff, XviD, audio filters for DVD playback, maybe Real, QuickTime, and you're jammin'. If you want, use DivX instead of XviD. Maybe Nero.
Beyond that settle on a couple good players. Maybe WMP for browsing titles and all the flash, but for a simple reliable player Media Player Classic is great. Small footprint, fast, and it handles everything without fluff.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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